History

This introduction to the history of science in the seventeenth century examines the so-called 'scientific revolution' in terms of the interplay between two major themes. The Platonic-Pythagorean tradition looked on nature in geometric terms with the...

The Origins of Modern Science is the first synthetic account of the history of science from antiquity through the Scientific Revolution in many decades. Providing readers of all backgrounds and students of all disciplines with the tools to study science...

For centuries, laymen and priests, lone thinkers and philosophical schools in Greece, China, the Islamic world and Europe reflected with wisdom and perseverance on how the natural world fits together. As a rule, their methods and conclusions, while often...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781879335868Author Peter M. HoppFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Astragal PressPublisher Astragal PressWeight(grams) 889gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262516129Author Peter D. NortonFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 21mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588342737Author Thomas J. KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 420gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Freud may never have set foot in Cambridge - that hub for the twentieth century's most influential thinkers and scientists - but his intellectual impact there in the years between the two World Wars was immense. This is a story that has long languished...

A little over a century ago the world went wireless. Cables and all their limiting inefficiencies gave way to a revolutionary means of transmitting news and information almost everywhere, instantaneously. By means of "Hertzian waves," as radio waves were...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046374Author Ariel EkblawFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

As lives offline and online merge even more, it is easy to forget how we got here. Rise of the Machines reclaims the spectacular story of cybernetics, one of the twentieth century's pivotal ideas. Springing from the mind of mathematician Norbert Wiener...

A revised edition of the New York Times bestselling classic: the epic story of the golden years of American space exploration, told by the men who rode the rocketsOn October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, and the space race was born...

A classic work in the history of science, and described as "a good book on rocket stuff...that's a really fun one" by SpaceX founder Elon Musk, readers will want to get their hands on this influential classic, available for the first time in decades. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060535957Author Timothy FerrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper Perennial

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780755206933Author Tim WanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams)...

Blinded by smallpox at the age of six, John Metcalf (1717-1810) led a life that might have featured in an eighteenth-century novel. Popularly known as 'Blind Jack of Knaresborough', Metcalf had many and varied careers, including musician, horse trader,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780755206070Author Tim WanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 548Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams)...

During the first fifty years of the twentieth century, ham radio went from being an experiment to virtually an art form. Because of the few government restrictions and the low monetary investment required, the concept of ham radio appealed to various...

Electric Railways 1880-1990 explores the history of the integration of both electric and diesel-electric railway systems and identifies the crucial role that diesel-electric traction played in the development of wireless electrification. The evolution of...

Sir Isaac Newton left at his death a large collection of papers on alchemy, mostly in his own handwriting; the importance of this legacy has been debated ever since. When it first appeared, Professor Dobb's detailed analysis of the foundations of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250338358Author Tom WolfeFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 139mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637744987Author Neil DahlstromFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Matt Holt BooksPublisher BenBella Books

"As familiar and widely appreciated works of modern technology, bridges are a good place to study the relationship between the aesthetic and the technical. Fully engaged technical design is at once aesthetic and structural. In the best work (the best...

Starting with hands, abacus and slide rule, humans have always reached for tools to simplify math. Pocket-sized calculators ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, took us to the bottom of the ocean and accompanied us to the moon...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606180273Author Edward TennerFormat HardbackPage Count 484Imprint American Philosophical SocietyPublisher American Philosophical Society

The Repair Shop's Dominic Chinea takes you on an exploration of 100 essential machines found in the workshops and studios of the world's finest artisans and heritage craftspeople. Filled with stunning illustrations and lively, engaging text, The Repair...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262661997Author Carroll W. PursellFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm *...

This is a comprehensive edition of Maxwell's manuscript papers published virtually complete and largely for the first time. Maxwell's work was of central importance in establishing and developing the major themes of the physics of the nineteenth century:...

This third volume of Colin Ronan's abridgement of Joseph Needham's monumental work is devoted to Chinese contributions to nautical science and technology. In the original text, these subjects were dealt with in separate parts; in this abridgement they...

This fifth volume of Colin Ronan's abridgement of Joseph Needham's monumental work is concerned with the staggering civil engineering feats made in early and medieval China. No other country did more, both as to scale and skill, than China. The book...

First published in 1962, this volume collects together some of Newton's most important scientific papers. Chosen primarily to illustrate Newton's ideas on the nature of matter, the papers afford valuable insights into Newton's development as a scientist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262693448Author Bruce SinclairFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 13mm

Today technology has created a world of dazzling progress, growing disparities of wealth and poverty, and looming threats to the environment. Technology: A World History offers an illuminating backdrop to our present moment--a brilliant history of...

This book tells the story of the birth of the computing industry via the origins of 25 influential computers built between 1939 and 1960Starting with a short, sharp history of how we got to where we were on the eve of the second world war, this book...

Charles Wilkins (1831-1913) was a Welsh postmaster and librarian who had a deep interest in local and regional history, especially of the town of Merthyr Tydfil where he lived. He wrote prolifically for many of the local newspapers, and produced...

From Darwin's The Origin of Species to the twenty-first century, Peter Bowler reinterprets the long Darwinian Revolution by refocussing our attention on the British and American public. By applying recent historical interest in popular science to...

From Darwin's The Origin of Species to the twenty-first century, Peter Bowler reinterprets the long Darwinian Revolution by refocussing our attention on the British and American public. By applying recent historical interest in popular science to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596291713Author Timothy StarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 263gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Dynamos and Virgins Revisited: Women and Technological Change in History, first published by Scarecrow Press in 1979, was one of the first books published on the history of women and technology and laid the groundwork for decades of impressive and...

In this bold reconsideration of the human sciences, an interdisciplinary team employ an expanded theoretical and geographical critical lens centering the notion of the encounter. Drawing insights from Indigenous and Latin American Studies, nine case...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627951654Author Tom JacksonFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint Shelter Harbor PressPublisher Shelter Harbor Press